Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Twin Cities Area
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

